Module ANTM105 for 2019/0
- Overview
- Aims and Learning Outcomes
- Module Content
- Indicative Reading List
- Assessment
Postgraduate Module Descriptor
ANTM105: Humans and Wildlife: Conflict and Conservation
This module descriptor refers to the 2019/0 academic year.
Module Content
Syllabus Plan
The module will be split into three parts. The first will introduce and discuss a range of key theoretical models and debates from environmental anthropology, environmental philosophy and cognate disciplines (such as phenomenology, deep ecology, ecological humanism, eco-criticism, post-humanism). The second part will cover a comprehensive selection of ethnographic case studies which consider human-wildlife conflict and conservation initiatives. The third phase will discuss the ways in which anthrozoological knowledge and methodological approaches can and have benefited human-wildlife co-existence and the conservation of endangered species. This module provides you with the opportunity to engage in empirical research or a library-based literature review.
You will be provided with the support needed to enable you to synthesise theory and if appropriate, empirical data to produce a research paper which is written in the style of an appropriate academic journal of their choice.
Learning and Teaching
This table provides an overview of how your hours of study for this module are allocated:
| Scheduled Learning and Teaching Activities | Guided independent study | Placement / study abroad |
|---|---|---|
| 20 | 130 | 0 |
...and this table provides a more detailed breakdown of the hours allocated to various study activities:
| Category | Hours of study time | Description |
|---|---|---|
| Scheduled Learning & Teaching activities | 10 | 10 x 1 hour podcast audio lectures with accompanying powerpoint presentations |
| Scheduled Learning & Teaching activities | 10 | 10 x 1 hour discussion/seminar participations on the VLE discussion forums (including formative assessments) |
| Guided Independent Study | 30 | Preparation for formative assessments |
| Guided Independent Study | 100 | Research and writing of summative assessments |
Online Resources
This module has online resources available via ELE (the Exeter Learning Environment).
Web based and electronic resources:
http://eea.anthro.uga.edu/index.php/eea (Journal of Ecological and Environmental Anthropology)
Indicative Reading List
This reading list is indicative - i.e. it provides an idea of texts that may be useful to you on this module, but it is not considered to be a confirmed or compulsory reading list for this module.
Abramson, A. & Theodossopoulos, D. (2000) Land, Law and Environment.London: Pluto Press.
Chrulew, M. 2011. Managing love and death at the zoo: the biopolitics of endangered species preservation. Australian Humanities Review 50: 137–157.
Descola, P. & Palson, G. (1996) Nature & Society: Anthropological perspectives.London: Routledge.
Ingold, T. (2000) The Perception of the Environment: Essays in livelihood, dwelling and skill.London: Routledge.
Knight, J. (ed.) 2000. Natural Enemies: People-Wildlife Conflicts in Anthropological
Perspective.London: Routldge.
Knight, J. 2006. Waiting for wolves in Japan: an anthropological study of people–wildlife relations.Hawai’i:University ofHawaii Press.
Lee, P.C. 2010a. Sharing space: can ethnoprimatology contribute to the survival of nonhuman primates in human-dominated globalized landscapes? American Journal of Primatology 72: 925–931.
Lee, P.C. 2010b. Problem animals or problem people? Ethics, politics and practice or conflict between community perspectives and fieldwork on conservation.: In:J. MacClancy and A. Fuentes (eds) Centralizing fieldwork: critical perspectives from primatology, biological and social anthropology.Oxford: Berghahn.
Lowe, C. 2006. Wild profusion: biodiversity conservation in an Indonesian archipelago.Princeton,NJ:PrincetonUniversity Press.
Milton, K. (1993) Environmentalism: the view from anthropology.London: Routledge.
Milton, K. (1996) Environmentalism and Cultural Theory: exploring the role of anthropology in environmental discourse.London: Routledge.
Milton, K. (2002) Loving Nature: Towards an Ecology of Emotion.London: Routledge.
Strang, V. (1997) Uncommon Ground: Cultural Landscapes and Environmental Values.Oxford: Berg.
Theodossopoulos, D. 1997. Turtles, farmers and ‘ecologists’: the cultural reason behind a community’s resistance to environmental conservation. Journal of Mediterranean Studies 7(2): 250–267.
Theodossopoulos, D. 2000. The land people work and the land the ecologists want: indigenous land valorisation in a Greek island community threatened by conservation law. In A. Abramson and D. Theodossopoulos (eds.) Land, law and environment: mythical land, legal boundaries.London: Pluto Press.
Theodossopoulos, D. 2002. Environmental conservation and indigenous culture in a Greek island community. the dispute over the sea turtles. In: M. Colchester (ed.) Conservation and mobile indigenous peoples: displacement, forced settlement, and sustainable development.Oxford: Berghahn Books.
Theodossopoulos, D. 2005. Troubles with turtles: cultural understandings of the environment on a Greek island. Oxford: Berghahn Books.
van Dooren, T. 2010. Pain of extinction: the death of a vulture. Cultural Studies Review 16(2): 271–289.
